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A good way to think about the Restoration Movement?

"It would follow that there is no point at which a renewed recourse to the apostolic writings and their point to Jesus cannot renew us. In every age it is possible that there may be a new and true witness. In every age there lurks the temptation to sell out to conformity to the spirit of the time. In every age there may be renewal through recourse to the irreducible 'thereness' of the Jesus narrative.

Not only is this the pattern Christians confess themselves called to (when we read our history since Jesus as a mix of faithfulness to celebrate and apostasy to condemn); this is also what Jesus himself did as in his day he read his people's history. Jesus made no beginning from scratch. He claimed only to renew and fulfill, in the light of the original creation, of Moses and the prophets, what had already been commanded and promised, already betrayed" (JHY, For the Nations, 141)